Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: I. About Children | | Children | | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | CHILDREN are what the mothers are. | |
| No fondest father’s fondest care | |
| Can fashion so the infant heart | |
| As those creative beams that dart, | |
| With all their hopes and fears, upon | 5 |
| The cradle of a sleeping son. | |
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| His startled eyes with wonder see | |
| A father near him on his knee, | |
| Who wishes all the while to trace | |
| The mother in his future face; | 10 |
| But ’t is to her alone uprise | |
| His waking arms; to her those eyes | |
| Open with joy and not surprise. | | | | |
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